Re: Maytag MI7500 iron
- From: "Ellen" <not@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:05:04 -0400
"KJ" <KJoger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hummmm tough question! I have this iron.....I won it in a raffle.
> It doesn't leak and it does hold its heat off the cradle. I have been a
> Rowenta user for many, many years so I'm used to doing a quick pick up of
> the iron to turn it back on after it has automatically shut off. With the
> Maytag, you have to punch the button to choose the fabric temperature and
> then wait for it to heat up again. The length of time depends on how long
> its been off. Though I don't think it heats up as fast as the
> Rowenta....and "maybe" doesn't get as hot. But not really sure on that
> one....just an impression. But I've been pretty happy with it for the
most
> part...of course, I didn't pay over 100 dollars for it. So I might be
> easier to please!
>
It's my rowenta that leaks water when it has water in the tank -- this is
the 4th rowenta I have had woth problems. I bought one about 10 yrs ago and
it leaked, the store replaced it, the replacement leaked, they replaced it,
that replacement leaked, they begged me to take my money back and I did. The
non-Rowenta I bought to replace it lasted about 8 yrs and then I bought the
latest Rowenta about 2 years ago. It is not an auto-off. But if you have
water in the tank it just seems to leak blobs of water here and there. And
it is getting worse. The soleplate has gotten slightly yucky even tho it is
supposedly non-stick.
If I have to punch a button every time and wait for it to heat up, it will
probably make me a raving lunatic. Maybe I should rethink this and just
never use the current rowenta with water in it again :-(
The best iron I ever had I bought 30+ years ago -- a GE I belive with a
plain sole plate. Got very hot, the sole plate never got weird, it didn't
spit and it didn't leak. When it was 18 yrs old there was some place having
a deal -- bring in your old iron and buy a new one and get $20 or $25 off
the new one. I never should have done that but I did ... It seems to me that
the technology has been around for close to forever, I don't want electronic
improvements. I just want an iron that gets real hot, that doesn't spit
water and doesn't leak. I'll live with a boring sole plate .. sigh
I have this theory -- no one but us irons. We are a small segment of the
population. All those other people who buy irons kept burning things cause
they couldn't manage to figure out how to turn the irons down to a cooler
setting and kept bitching at the manufacturers so they started making irons
that don't get hot any more. Problem solved! Now to even have a chance at an
iron that gets hot we wind up spending big $$ and they still don't work
right. Grump grump grump :-)
Ellen
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